Who was it who said that every virtue contains its corresponding vice? C.S. Lewis? Virginia Woolf? You forget. But it has always worried you that wha…

- Kevin Brockmeier

You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine…

- Kevin Brockmeier

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

- Kevin Brockmeier

I suppose that when you're growing up, you're bound to reach an age when you feel buffeted by all the changes in your life, when either your mind beg…

- Kevin Brockmeier

Sometimes you imagine that everything could have been different for you, that if only you had gone right one day when you chose to go left, you would…

- Kevin Brockmeier

Anyone who has ever experienced love knows that you can have too much or too little. You can have love that parches, love that defeats. You can have …

- Kevin Brockmeier

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

- Kevin Brockmeier

Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

- Kevin Brockmeier

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

- Kevin Brockmeier